Brown Betty (teapot)

[1][2] The original teapots came from a red clay that was discovered in the Stoke-on-Trent area of Britain, in 1695.

This clay resulted in a ceramic which seemed to retain heat better and so found use as the material for the teapot as early as the seventeenth century.

In the nineteenth century the pots began to take on the more rounded shape of the modern Brown Betty.

The Rockingham Glaze was brushed on the pot and allowed to run down the sides, creating a streaky finish as it was fired.

[3] This article about an item of drinkware or tool used in preparation or serving of drink is a stub.